Pay attention to Kellie Leitch, who is bolder than she ever was with her Barbaric Cultural Practices Orwellian snitch line, because Trump has provided cover and legitimacy for her pandering to old stock Canadians. Pay attention to Frank Navarro, a California Holocaust historian and high school teacher, who was suspended just days after the election for using actual facts to compare the Trump presidential campaign to the rise of Hitler.

Lean on your constitution, your moral leaders, your Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Lean on your dignity and integrity and build up your community. Your people are your bedrock. And you are theirs.

Do not conform.

Do not conform to the trends of corporate media continuing their profit orgy by continuing to stoke division and extremism. Seek measured voices who too are grounded in wisdom and insight, hope and selflessness, faith in humanity and a roadmap to a more civilized world.

Do not conform to despair. It’s a luxury of the entitled. Make sure you follow your words with liberating action!

And if you have gotten this far, know that you are not alone. Know that you are in the midst of silent millions.

You need to shout to them to not conform! Email/share/Facebook/tweet this screaming rant to them, or better yet, write your own manifesto creed of the future you want to pivot to!

You need to call out racism, sexism, bigotry, climate change denial, scapegoating, policy based on ignorance, the celebration of ignorance, the rejection of facts and truth and science, and seek out opportunities to use your privilege to empower others. And you need to beware accidental/intentional fascist references when Trump’s transition team talks about making the trains run on time.

Then you need to be quiet and let the disenfranchised speak.

We saw it with the Sanders rallies. The Clinton/DNC/media machine silenced that avenue for justice, so people took the Trump way. The frightened people, the desperate people, the people with nothing more to lose.

Now we need to fight even harder for what we thought we wanted all along. And we need to shake our heads and silently move past Trump playing “You Can’t Always Get What You Want” after his acceptance speech. And hit the mute button on the trolls in Twitter. Life is too short to feed the trolls. Move on and build up your people.

We need to seek out allies from unusual places. The Ruth Hopkins of the world. Canada’s Bernie Sanders. The people who silently champion the oppressed.

It is their world we need to illuminate with anything at our disposal because we are pivoting into a future of our making. OUR making!

And even though Trump’s ignorance may make America a magnet for terrorism, you cannot let the rage and spin machine divide us further because even the facts of the division are constantly being spun, when in reality they look like this:

Be the light you wish to see in the world. Be the change. Be the bus driver of all your people, so you can pick up new ones on the way.

Because every swastika is one too many swastikas. Because as Umair Haque says, the fascists are always better than us at marketing because they don’t bother with rationality. WE need some Banksy guerilla street art encouraging love and community and mutual aid.

Help let America be America again, not great again like the vague red caps say, but how Langston Hughes said it because he spoke of the peace we are seeking, not the KKK parade that wears the red cap under the white hood of hatred. Because even while Trump’s party condemns the parade, the president-elect reiterates his desire to deport millions of Mexicans immediately.

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